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Monday, November 13, 2017

One Week in Sweden - Fjordman

by Fjordman

In Sweden, car-burnings are
not major news anymore; they have become a part of daily life. Cars are
torched in Swedish towns on a regular basis.

In Sweden, car-burnings are
not major news anymore; they have become a part of daily life. Cars are
torched in Swedish towns on a regular basis.

Between January and September 2017, Sweden experienced 6000
car-burnings. That equals roughly 22 car fires per day. Schools and
other buildings are sometimes targeted by arsonists as well.

Meanwhile, a report claims that Swedish students and other
citizens have been pushed to the back of the public-housing queue. The
authorities thus sometimes prioritize recently-arrived asylum seekers
and immigrants over the country's native population.

If you search for crime, you can find it in any society. Sadly, in
Sweden today, you do not have to search very hard. A casual look at
newspapers on any random day will be filled with stories about armed
robberies, sexual assaults, rapes, public gang shootings and perhaps
explosives in restaurants. This crime wave is no longer merely confined
to the major cities. Many smaller towns and some rural communities are
now affected as well.

In some Swedish municipalities, harassment and violent threats have
become major issues even at public libraries. In the town of Trelleborg,
in the autumn of 2017, a gang of 30-50 youths effectively occupied the
local library. One mother, who asked that her name not be used,
explained that she is now scared to visit the library with her children.
The last time she went, visitors were harassed by a loud, aggressive
youth gang. When a guard asked the gang-members to leave, they
surrounded him. The local police say that they are aware of this
problem, but that they do not have sufficient staff to patrol the
library every day.

In October 2017, an 81-year-old Swedish woman in the town of Mölndal
was harassed and threatened by some youths while walking her dog. A few
boys around the age of 12 walked in front of her and blew cigarette
smoke in her face; one of them threatened to attack her dog and her.
Then he spat her in her face. The woman now says that she is afraid to
go out. The local police confirm that elderly people are harassed in
similar ways. In a separate incident, some youths stole a loaf of bread
from another woman in her 80s.

On the evening of October 29, 2017, a car was torched in the Muslim-dominated district of Rosengård in Malmö. On October 30, another car was torched in the same area. The local daily Sydsvenskan
mentioned these incidents with just a couple of sentences. Why? Because
car-burnings have become a part of daily life. They are not major news
anymore. Cars are torched in Swedish towns on a regular basis.

Between January and September 2017,
Sweden experienced 6000 car-burnings. That equals roughly 22
car-burnings per day. (Insurance companies estimate that about half of
these incidents are attempts at insurance fraud.) Schools and other
buildings have been targeted by arsonists, as well.

Cars burn in the Stockholm suburb of Husby during a riot on May 20, 2013. (Image source: Telefonkiosk/Wikimedia Commons)

The police in parts of Sweden have also experienced, in recent years, a rising number of violent attacks. Police vehicles and stations have been targeted; sometimes even policemen in the privacy of their homes.

On October 29, 2017, a stone was thrown through the front door of the police station in the small town of Kinna. A police station in Dalbo, Växjö had several windows smashed with stones and was shot at with fireworks. The local police chief commented that the police earlier experienced vandalism against their cars, too. A police station at Vännäs in northern Sweden was hit by a rock a day earlier.

On October 29, a police patrol in the town of Linköping was ambushed by people throwing rocks at them. One policeman was injured, struck in the face by a stone.

On October 18, a police station in the southern city of Helsingborg
was hit by an explosion. No one was injured, but a large part of the
building, as well as the windows on the building opposite, were damaged
by the blast. "This is very serious. An attack on the police is not just
an attack against society, but on everyone's safety," said Sweden's
National Police Commissioner, Dan Eliasson.

On October 28, in the middle of the night, someone fired roughly 20 bullets into the private home of a police officer in Västerås. The policeman and his family were asleep at the time. The shots went
straight through the house and into the neighbor's house. According to
the regional police chief Carin Götblad, only luck prevented anyone from
being hit.

Despite many such incidents, Johanna Skinnari,
a researcher at the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention,
claims that it is not possible to determine whether or not attacks on
the police are becoming more common. She did add, however, that
"ordinary threats and harassment" are on the rise. Her research, she
explained, found that these attacks tend to reinforce the "intimidation
capital" of the perpetrators, "to show they're tough and not afraid of
the police."

A Swedish policewoman described
how criminals have published photographs of her, her husband and her
2-year-old son, whom they threatened to murder. She said that similar
stories about police officers in Sweden are now common. Some policemen
have begun checking for bombs under their cars before starting them. As
one violent criminal told the Swedish police: "You are no longer hunting us. We are hunting you. We will hunt you and your families."

Swedes pay some of the world's highest taxes. Despite this burden,
parts of the country suffer from a chronic lack of police resources.
Many crimes go unsolved. Witnesses are sometimes afraid of talking to the police. At other times, the police lack the capacity to investigate even serious crimes such as murder or rape.

Being a policeman is not an attractive job in Sweden today. The risks are high; the salary is low. The majority of Swedish police officers -- an alarming 58% -- are considering finding a different profession.

The police warn that foreign criminals
view Sweden as a most attractive country. If you steal something, the
chances of being caught are almost zero. If you should be sentenced for a
crime, you might spend only a short time in a comfortable prison. A lot
of weapons are illegally circulating among criminal gangs, from pistols to hand grenades.

A journalist, Ivar Arpi, commented that parts of the country are no longer under the control of the state. At many train stations,
libraries and hospitals, threatening and harassing the staff have
become a daily routine. In troubled areas, shops are forced to close:
thanks to rampant crime, they can no longer buy insurance. Throwing
stones at the police or rescue service personnel is now "normal." The
use of hand grenades in attacks in Sweden is now comparable to regions of Mexico in which drug cartels operate.

The Gothenburg regional daily Göteborgs-Postenargues
that a "low-intensity war" is currently being waged against the Swedish
police. This situation exists, the newspaper notes, although the
Swedish economy is still strong. What happens to these tensions if the
economy suffers a downturn?

PO Hellqvist,
who has worked for 30 years at the Swedish Security Service (Säpo),
sounded an alarm on a "power struggle" between Swedish authorities and
criminal gangs in certain areas. He says he is concerned about the
growth of parallel societies, complete with their own "morality police,"
partly cut off from, and often hostile to, the rest of society. Such
communities have historically been a breeding ground for terrorism.
Hellqvist adds he is even more worried about people who become
radicalized locally than about ISIS jihadists returning from the Middle
East. The local radicals, he notes, are more numerous.

Three employees of Sweden's public broadcasting station SVT
were convicted of human trafficking after they smuggled a Syrian
migrant into Sweden in 2014. They will not, however, lose their jobs because of this. At the same time, another Syrian Muslim migrant was being arrested in Germany; he is suspected of plotting a mass-murder terrorist attack.

Kjell-Olof Feldt, who served as a powerful Minister of Finance during
most of the 1980s, was widely respected as an honest and competent
minister (even though some of his fellow Social Democrats thought his
economic policies too "right-wing"). In October 2017, the now-retired
Feldt gave an interview
to a Swedish newspaper in which he expressed concerns about the future
of his own party, as well as about the future of Sweden. Feldt says that
the way the established political parties have handled immigration has
weakened trust in politicians. He described the current immigration
policies in Sweden as a "ticking bomb".
When asked what politicians can do to solve these problems, Feldt
replied: "I do not know. I think hardly anyone knows." Current political
leaders, in his view, are simply trying to keep a lid on the situation
and stifle debate.

Meanwhile, a report
claims that Swedish students and other citizens have been pushed to the
back of the public-housing queue. Municipalities across Sweden suffer
from a housing shortage. The authorities, it seems, have sometimes been
prioritizing recently-arrived asylum seekers
and immigrants over the country's native population. The Swedish
government is looking to house 100,000 more immigrants in 2018.

Fjordman, a Norwegian historian, is an expert on Europe, Islam and multiculturalism.Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11352/one-week-in-sweden Follow Middle East and Terrorism on TwitterCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.

1 comment:

For a minute, we thought you were reporting about Toronto,Canada. When it comes to the "silence of the lambs" as a last resort to "keep the lid on" nobody beats the "politically correct" cover-up "artistes" who now tyrannize over our police services,local boards of education, health-care,& public housing; They are the 'lords & masters' over nearly six million people of the Greater Toronto Census Metropolitan Area...an urban area of nearly 4000 square kilometers. It took little more than forty years of the judgment of fools to do this to ourselves. What's Sweden's excuse ? Are the Swedes any worse than we are ? Or the Brits, Belgians, Dutch, French, Americans, Italians,Spaniards etc...etc ?Is this predicament remediable, short of the most drastic application of policies of self-preservative repatriation ? If so, will some body please tell us .